Eric Stanton Art ebooks

Family Affair, Books 10 and 11
illustrated by Eric Stanton
text by Throne
published by Eric Stanton in Stantoons 15 and 16
New York, New York
1985

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In Books 6, 7, and 8, Family Affair chronicles the road trip that ends at the mansion of Henry's brother Arthur. Book 9 exposes Dolly's brazen seduction of Arthur in his bedroom.

Books 10 and 11 continue that day after dinner, when Lorraine and Henry retire to the spacious guest cottage. When he makes husbandly advances, she tells him not to touch her.

Lorraine scolds her husband for eyeing and flirting with the governess. She begins his penalty phase by twisting his fingers. Then she kicks him in the crotch.

While he's feeling that pain, she removes his trousers and gags him. The outraged wife bends him onto a chair, and spanks his naked bottom with a wire clothes hanger. To inflict even more pain, she delivers a swift succession of punches to his kidneys.

In Book 11, Henry attacks his wife in the kitchen, grabbing her throat. She tries to fend him off by scratching his face. When that fails, she grabs and twists his scrotum . . .

Freed of the choking grip, Lorraine fought to resume breathing normally. She recovered before him. Straightening up, she backhanded her husband across the face. On the return swing, she slapped him soundly on the opposite cheek. He went reeling, still clutching his injured crotch.

"You asshole," she said. "You're going to hurt for a month after this. And as for being allowed any sexual relief, you can forget that. All ejaculation privileges are hereby revoked."

She punched him under the breastbone. As his head came down, her knee went up, catching him beneath the chin. Henry knew that if she bested him, his wife would do all she'd threatened and more. Despite his pain, he made a suicidal rush at her.

"Come on, sucker," she said. "Give me a chance to really bust you up."

Catching him by the wrist, Lorraine cracked Henry in the face. Her knee came up between his bare legs. She twisted his arm up behind his back. Leading him that way, she got Henry in front of the sink and forced his head down into it.

"Cool off," she said, turning on the cold water and holding his head under it. He spluttered and yelled as she forced his arm to the verge of major damage. She banged his head against the sink. As the basin began to fill, she held his face under, nearly drowning him. But Henry's ears were above the water, so he didn't miss a word of her angry tirade. . . .

Yanking out the sprayer alongside the faucet, she wrapped its hose around Henry's neck and knotted it as tightly as she could. Then she tore out the phone cord and used it to bind his wrists. The slightest sign of rebellion earned him an elbow in the back, which made him jerk up his head and hit the faucet. . . .

Lorraine wreaks further torment and degradation on her husband that night. In the final scene, he's attached to his automobile in the rain while she takes a nap on the sofa.

The digital replica combines complete pages of Books 10 and 11 as presented in two Stantoons booklets. Each page has a block of text at the top and Mr. Stanton's splendid art below. Some of his illustrations contain a single panel, others three or four.

Images were brightened and clarified for the digital replica and noise reduced. Pages were enlarged for the ebook and content is easy to see and read.

A second ebook consisting of only pictures presents Mr. Stanton's drawings on more than 80 optimized pages. This iteration breaks apart multi-panel images and places each tableau on a separate page. Action elements and figure features appear as virtual enlargements, reducing the need for zooming and scrolling.

The original booklets were made using a copy machine to duplicate Mr. Stanton's art. Copy-machine production of most Stantoons volumes add undesirable qualities to Mr. Stanton's superb illustrations. Dot patterns, waffle patterns, moire, dark gray backgrounds and uneven tonality from side to side were among the unpleasant consequences of electrostatic duplication.

Multiple image-editing adjustments, including the application of filters, smooth the fine pencil work and backgrounds, revealing the adroit artistry exercised in his powerful female protagonist. Using 21st century media, these new digital renderings expose the Maestro's virtuoso talent for celebrating voluptuous beauty in narrative illustration.

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